My visits to Milan Kundera and his wife, Věra, became regular in 2019, when I was in the third year of my mission as Czech ambassador to France. What started as polite and admiring calls from a diplomat to his country’s greatest author evolved into friendship.…

I went on a hunt to find the "Meteors" loading animation from Netscape back in the 90s, and wrote up my adventure.

It is no secret that we tend to have a bit of a problem with shader permutations in real-time graphics. It’s such a bad problem that it not only affects graphics programmers, but also trickles down to all of the other content creators that use an engine.…

Let’s talk about a really interesting new paper in Cell Chemical Biology, which is also getting some pickup in the wider press. It’s about a molecule designated AOH1996, which seems to have a unique mode of action in tumor cells, one that might make it more…

Westbrook spent 35 years in a codebase that allegedly powers some sort of medical software somewhere. During his tenure, he contributed hundreds of lines of code to his projects.

The human auditory response to pulses of radiofrequency (RF) energy, commonly called RF hearing, is a well established phenomenon. RF induced sounds can be characterized as low intensity sounds becau...

IBM & open-source AI platform Hugging Face today announced that IBM's watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model – built from NASA's satellite data – will now be openly available on Hugging Face.

The story of the CRUDController

Tired of relying on Big Tech to enable collaboration, peer-to-peer enthusiasts are creating a new model that cuts out the middleman. (That’s you, Google.)

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1883-1898 Max O’Rell was the pen name of Léon Paul Blouet, a well-known French author and journalist in the late nineteenth century. Beginni...

Live coding environment for making algorithmic patterns

Powerful system container and virtual machine manager - GitHub - stgraber/incus: Powerful system container and virtual machine manager

StagingTool can enable hidden and unannounced features in Windows 11 preview builds.

Remember reading when Google's 8.8.8.8 crossed through over 1.2 trillion requests per day back in 2018 and thinking: that's unfathomable. Well, 1.1.1.1 is now handling more than 1.3 trillion requests per day. Still feels unfathomable.

Increase performance in pgvector by using embedding vectors with fewer dimensions